Key Concepts in Educational Management and Policy
Key Concepts in Education
Educational Management
The task of setting objectives, providing resources, organizing and delegating, monitoring and supervising, directing and coordinating an educational center.
Educational Policy
An outline for each country, developed through elected bodies and individuals, to plan, organize, and evaluate its educational system.
Educational Administration
The institutional apparatus that directs, manages, and oversees the education system.
Leadership in Education
Addressing changes in education by developing strategies, fostering commitment, and promoting teamwork.
Transformational Leadership
A process that achieves the following results in the school community:
- Work collaboratively to achieve organizational, personal, and professional goals.
- Create a non-threatening environment and leverage all skills.
- Encourage and build working relationships that meet, standardize, and strengthen the achievement of objectives.
- Promote group decision-making.
- Optimize human and material resources.
Effectiveness of the Education System
Setting and achieving goals. The ability to achieve specific results and objectives.
Efficiency of the Education System
The real capacity to produce the maximum output with minimum time and energy. Emphasizes productivity and achieving objectives with minimal costs.
Improvement in the Educational System
Changes involving a shift from an initial state to a higher one for the organization, indicating progress.
Educational Reform
Large-scale global changes in the structure of the education system, potentially involving curriculum restructuring. Primarily involves structural, organizational, attitudinal, and behavioral changes.
Educational Change
A change at various levels of education (student, classroom, center, system).
Teaching Innovation
- Qualitative changes in internal organizational processes.
- Linked to the concept of “change,” but innovation does not necessarily presuppose changes or changes innovation.
- Creating new structures does not imply innovation or improvement; culture change is essential.
Quality Education
Possessing certain characteristics that, when compared with others, indicate superiority.
Improved Education
Changes that are assessed as progress.
Purposes and Principles of Education
Purposes of Education (Art. 2)
- Full development of personality and abilities.
- No sex or disability discrimination.
- Prevention, tolerance, democracy, and peace.
- Self-help.
- Sustainable development and respect for the environment.
- Enhancing creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Multilingualism and intercultural understanding.
- Training in official, co-official, and foreign languages.
- Work habits and healthy lifestyles.
- Active, critical, and responsible citizenship.
Principles of Education (Art. 1)
- For all, equity, and shared effort.
- Gender equality, inclusion, and compensation.
- Personal freedom, responsibility, democracy, and solidarity.
- Lifelong learning.
- Attention to diversity.
- Educational and vocational guidance.
- Collaboration between State and Local Autonomy.
- Participation in the educational community.
- Prestige of teachers.
- Promoting research and innovation.
- Evaluation of the education system and results.